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  3. Posted

    I watched the Vimeo copy and there's a moment where, thanks to a really terrible editing choice, I thought the movie was going to be WAY darker than it actually was.

     

    When Cru gets called out to the car for his audience with Duke Best, he's excited and nervous. He gets in and Duke says, "How would you like to be responsible for bringing BMX to all of the small towns in the USA?"

     

    It then immediately cuts away -- to a nothing scene with Bart Taylor's two groupies mocking a local store.

     

    We cut back to the car. Cru is now mad and Duke Best is pleading, "You don't understand it's the chance of a lifetime!"

     

    The movie doesn't explain what happened in the car AT ALL. Cru just angrily says, "You and me, we don't think the same, not at all" and runs out of the car - with Best calling after him, "You'll regret this!"

     

    In the moment, I presumed that Duke Best had sexually propositioned Cru. "Hey, you can be my new Bart Taylor Jr. and work the small town circuit, if you'll submit to being my own personal BMX bandit."

     

    It takes the movie another 3-4 minutes to explain that Duke only proposed that Cru should throw the race for money, but why keep that a secret? Why not show that scene? Because, instead, they just showed a young teen get into a car with an old man, cut away, and then came back to the young man saying "no, no, no, no, no."

     

    WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO THINK?

     

    That sounds like a deliberate 80's choice to make people think he was doing just that. :D

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    Yeah McAvoy was amazing in this, especially during the scene where he's one personality acting as another in order to trick his therapist.

     

    That's the one thing I really loved about the movie, the idea of multiple personalities uniting for one common cause instead of fighting for dominance. Setting aside how shaky that may be from a true-life psychological standpoint, it's such a great concept, particularly when it's for such an insidious goal.

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    Oh my God!!!! I remember this commercial!! Oh the memories. It also reminds me of the intro to You Can't Do That On Television which was just a bad Terry Gilliam rip off anyway.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1aVBtOSg6Q

     

    If by "bad", you mean "Amazing because everything about YCDTOT is Amazing, but yeah, it was definitely inspired by Gilliam's work"...then yes.

     

    But yeah, that Surf Ninjas trailer can jump up it's own ass. It's like watching Ninja Turtle Michaelangelo's id being unspooled.

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    I honestly thought it was going to be garbage, but for me, it turned out to be the third best film Shyamalan's made (and granted, the bar isn't that high after you get past those top three, but still).

     

    It was one of the secret screenings at Fantastic Fest, and the response was pretty divided, though, and it largely hinged on how people felt about the ending. I should also note that all of the people I know from that fest kept the ending a secret for almost four months...only to have stories drop the day it came out that spoiled it

    by saying things like, "Not to spoil Split, but Shyamalan's next movie will be another Unbreakable movie." Great, so you just told me Split is an Unbreakable sequel. If they hadn't said anything about Split and just said that Shyamalan was going to make an Unbreakable sequel, it would have been fine, but without fail, most of them tied the two together in their damn headlines, so if you follow any kind of movie development news, it gave the ending away.

     

    Fuckers.

     

     

    I'll be honest here

     

     

    I was going to give Split a solid pass, because I haven't been impressed with anything that M. Night has done since Signs, and I read the story on iO9 about how the movie was better when you knew what it was. So, I decided to give it a shot, and they were right. I honestly don't know if I would have seen it if I hadn't known the connection, but I'm glad I did. I think it's a very solid, pretty tense movie with a hell of a performance from McAvoy.

     

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    I'm always going to have a weird relationship with Vin Diesel. On the one hand, he seems like the weirdest macho d-bag who's created this persona for himself and can't help but NOT be Vin Diesel.

     

    On the other hand...the dude loves Dungeons And Dragons. Like, LOVES Dungeons And Dragons. And video games. And is, essentially, a giant geek who decided that he was just going to build his own mystique around himself. I...I don't know how to reach a rational response to the guy anymore.

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    When I saw the trailer for this, my first thought was "...how is the extreme sport culture that was put forward in the first movie still relevant today?!"

     

    Knowing that Vin basically made the movie as an way to decompress and have fun after the death of Paul Walker kinda makes me go a little easier on the dumbness of this movie, but...man, it looks so dumb. The podcast did nothing to correct that with me. But it makes me more likely to watch it for the lulz.

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    So Movie Bitches liked Collateral Beauty more than La La Land?

     

    I will once again reiterate how done I am with these guys. Just done.

     

    Please, HDTGM crew, give them their own podcast and get them off the minisodes. I'm tired of having to FF over them every week now. I gave them a chance. I'm done.

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    Let me drop some additional info from the perspective of someone who was there for some of the filming——I was not part of the crew, but attended one of the schools it was filmed at:

     

     

    - The scene in the classroom was shot at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, as I recall mainly because they needed that window to crash through (it is only a few feet off the ground, and is above an easily accessible parking lot.) Also, a few of the actors in that scene were cast from SCPA. In town productions that needed children often came to SCPA for casting (Sarah Jessica Parker, Carmen Electra, etc were alum from that period). Everyone, including apparently some the crew, knew this film was corny and not going to be so great. People were however super excited to have Seth Green there (this was not that long after his "Ka-Ching" commercials).

     

     

    - The inside scoop was that it was developed for Milwaukee or Minneapolis or something, but then they came to Cincinnati because, in addition to tax breaks and it being a production friendly town, it had plenty of the hills they needed for that dumb-ass race (obviously there are not that kind of hills in Minneapolis or Milwaukee). This also makes sense because hockey is not a big thing in Cinncinati. Cinncinati is a big baseball and football town. Nor was roller blading a thing—if anything, it was, and still is, much more known for skateboarding. Trust me, everyone was thoroughly embarrassed by this corny ass film. Except for Seth Green. Everybody loved Seth Green.

     

    I love it when Seth talks about being the Cha-Ching Guy. It's such an amazing story about being a localized here, perfectly encapsulated in this news report from '91.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyAYjw3GPmk

    PS Seth Green may be my favorite celebrity ever. He's like Paul Rudd, he's been in a ton of things for almost his entire life, and seems like the coolest, nicest guy you'd ever meet (having seen him and the Robot Chicken crew multiple times at NYCC).

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  20. Posted

    Okay, I would like to shift the conversation back a little bit towards hockey and this film. The relationship between hockey and this movie is fraught at best.

     

    As our esteemed Ohioan members have pointed out, hockey isn't a major sport in Cincinnati - there is a pro team but it's not like it is in Canada or Minnesota or something. So, hockey's not such a big deal. YET. The only school team that we see or hear of is the hockey team, and this doesn't really feel a sanctioned school game, with the kids picking the team on the fly in the hallway, and no coaches to be seen. Okay, so we've established all this already. Except hockey is set out to be a huge deal in this world. The twins wear matching Cincinnati Cyclones jerseys in every scene they're in. Wiley introduces himself to the class as being all about hockey, he loves hockey, he lives hockey, breathes hockey - but when he's put into the game, he confesses that he can't skate, and only likes to play hockey on his Nintendo. BUT. Wiley's father is established as an award-winning Zamboni driver. They actually have a line in the movie about how he won an award for being the best Zamboni driver in town. His license plate says 'my Other Car is a Zamboni'. Yet when Wiley says that he played hockey, dad doesn't seem familiar with the sport.

     

    "Wiley play hockey? I gave him a puck! A cup? You can't win a Stanley Cup unless you're on a team"

     

    Here in Canada, Zamboni drivers are the rink rockstars. It's a huge privilege to get anywhere near a Zamboni and the guys who do it are hardcore in the community. There's just NO WAY that Wiley's dad gets to drive a Zamboni and not be familiar with the sport, and if he's working in a rink, how is it possible his son hasn't learned how to skate? This makes absolutely no sense.

     

    Add to this, the game between the Centrals and the Preps is billed as having been going on for years. Like, it's been so long since the Centrals won that it's really bugging them. It's set up like some kind of finale to a Mighty Ducks movie, except the Preps don't have fancy uniforms up against the rag-tag Centrals, like you'd expect, everyone looks like they forgot their gear at home that day and had to use whatever was in lost property. And for a school with such a passion for hockey (and a pretty nice outdoor covered rink with a scoreboard), why can't they find guys to play? Like, picking Wiley in the hallway and Mitchell from the stands? Is this seriously the best they can do? Not to mention Cam Bert's earlier point, about the fact that menacing gang member Snake is actually the Latino Wayne Gretzky in disguise.

     

    And what about Rosenblatt? Poor old Rosenblatt, very clearly a member of the team prior to the film starting, is seen in the film class with a broken nose, unable to make his speech, but never really sighted again. He seems like a throwaway character, but when the Centrals declare that they won't graduate losers by getting beaten by the Preps again, what do they all dedicate their future win to?

     

    FOR ROSENBLATT!

     

    They all cry, rousing us all around a character who will never play hockey, never skate in the race, never actually utter a line.

     

    Seriously, guys, WHY was hockey made such a big part of this movie if no one was willing to really invest in hockey overall?

     

    Rosenblatt, Jewish hockey player. Like Goldberg from The Mighty Ducks. Snake, a tough guy who seems to have all of these skills for hockey that no one knew about is almost a bobo version of Fulton from The Mighty Ducks. Mighty Ducks came out in '92, Airborne in '93.

     

    Guys, are we sure that the screenwriter didn't see The Mighty Ducks and decided to sandwich hockey into a rollerblading movie?

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    Oh. And I should point this out.

     

    When Mrs. Poole from Valerie slash the Secretary from Ferris Bueller says to Mitchell that she's had word from Mitchell's parents, and that he's caught 'poison oak' in Australia, everyone takes this at face value.

     

    BUT POISON OAK IS A NORTH AMERICAN PLANT.

     

    https://en.wikipedia...on_diversilobum

     

    So what if Mitchell's parents NEVER went to Australia? What if they're just so sick of this bonehead that they made up this story, packed him off to Ohio, and are now living the life of key parties and binge drinking with Dog Dog?

     

    The idea of them going to Australia in the first place (wombats) is pretty flimsy, and their ruse is immediately spoiled by trying to embellish too much (poison oak). I want to see the reverse sequel, where Mom and Dad pretend to go to Australia only to breathe a sigh of relief and get up to all kinds of hijinks with Dog Dog.

     

    This movie could have a secret reverse Ferris Bueller's Day Off movie underneath this turd. I wanna see that movie!

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    I was amazed that Paul hadn't heard of Icon. They're one of the few genuinely independantly studios in existence and internally fund all their movies. This movie probably payed for the blood packs in Passion of the Christ.

     

    The logo is from one of the most famous and most sacred Byzantine Icons (hence the name), which is almost 1000 years old now I think. Mel Gibson is a wierd old Traditionalist Catholic so he knows all this shit.

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    Felt the need to make the Icon logo 1000X creepier.

     

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  23. Posted

    Hooooooo. Leeeeeee. Fuck.

     

    OK, I just stumbled across this while cruising IO9, linked from an article about how Coolio claims he was supposed to play the Scarecrow in what was supposed to be the next Joel Schumacher Bat-movie after Batman And Robin (which is another Holy Fuck Moment that I might drop into the B&R forum post and came across this.)

     

    http://io9.gizmodo.com/5687953/the-most-amazing-matrix-knock-off-ever--co-starring-coolio

    A young hacker fights Agent SmithNeville (Adrian Paul!) inside a virtual-reality subway train, and then Coolio and Bai Ling show up to save his ass. Watch Bai Ling make Miss Piggy kung-fu noises, while Coolio hacks the virtual reality itself.

     

    Yes, it has Coolio. Yes, it has Tone-Loc. Yes, it has Adrian Paul as a rogue AI program. Yes, it has hackers who drink energy drinks and say their Hacker names before "PLUGGING INTO THE INTERWEB!"

     

    And yes, Bai Ling. Miss Piggy Kung Fu noises. All of this happens in the movie, apparently.

     

    I'm going home after work and seeing if I can find this because this all sounds like it's next-level bonkers. Also, check out the last clip in that article, in what may be the most dumblarious way a villain has ever been dispatched, right down to Adrian Paul, A FORMER HIGHLANDER, dies LIKE A HIGHLANDER!

     

    Let me know what you all think. Holy. Shit. Balls.

  24. Posted

    I loved how they turned the whole "Angry Police Chief" trope on it's head with Arkin's character being a sensitive, understanding guy, and LaPaglia getting disappointed with his treatment because he always wanted a hardass chief like in the movies. The scene where Arkin tears into him about the murder case, leaves, and then comes back asking how he did was so awesome. Love this movie so much.

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